@OfficeOfEdTech

2016 National Educational Technology Plan

Office of Educational Technology • US Department of Education

@southjoseph

Dr. Joseph South, Director

What We Do ●  In the Office of the Secretary of Education

●  Work with other ED offices, the White House, and other agencies ●  National Educational Technology Policy Development

●  Support the President’s and Secretary’s priorities ○  Promoting equity of access, broadband connectivity for all ○  Future Ready Educators ○  Robust ecosystem of entrepreneurs and innovators and leading

edge research

What is the National Educational

Technology Plan?

tech.ed.gov/netp

A Vision

A Call to Action

A Collection of Examples

Major Sections: Learning Teaching

Leadership Assessment

Infrastructure

Section Structure: Goal

Guiding Principles

Definitions Examples

Recommendations

Engaged Recognized Experts Conducted National Outreach

Collected Real-World Examples

“The NETP focuses on using technology to transform learning experiences with the goal of providing greater equity and accessibility.”

NLTS Tracks: Technology Competencies

for Teacher Educators &

Efficacy of Educational Technologies

Technology Competencies for Teacher Educator

Revolution in Classroom Connectivity

“In a country where we expect

free wi-fi with our coffee, we

should definitely demand it in

our schools”

~ President Obama

Connectivity Professional

Learning

High-Quality Devices & Software

High-Quality, Affordable Digital

Resources

www.whitehouse.gov/connectED  

#FutureReady

e-rate: $3.9 billion

lifeline: $2.25 billion

“Educators need to have the knowledge and skills to take full advantage of technology-rich learning environments...” “In addition, the roles of PK-12 classroom teachers…and learners all will need to shift as technology enables new types of learning experiences.”

“Develop a common set of technology competency expectations for university professors and candidates exiting teacher preparation programs for teaching in technologically enabled schools and post-secondary education institutions” (U.S. DOE, 2016, 37).

4 Goals for Teacher Prep Programs ●  Focusing on the active use of technology to enable learning and

teaching through creation, production, and problem solving. ●  Building sustainable, program-wide systems of professional learning

for higher education instructors to strengthen and continually refresh their capacity to use technological tools to enable transformative learning and teaching.

●  Ensuring pre-service teachers’ experiences with educational

technology are program-deep and program-wide rather than one-off courses separate from their methods courses.

●  Aligning the above efforts with research-based standards, frameworks,

and credentials recognized across the field.

Competencies &

Microcredentials

ISTE, SITE, NTLS, CAEP (Glen Bull & David Slykhuis)

collaborating on competencies

with Teresa Foulger

Rick West (BYU), Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich

(Indiana U), Tim Newby (Purdue),

Kyle Peck (Penn State) collaborating on microcredentials

Badges are becoming: Digital, “clickable” representations of lifelong learning.

Endorsements! CC-BY-SA Kyle Bowen

Badges  as  Micro-­‐creden/als  

•  Receive  recogni4on  for  smaller  chunks  of  learning    

•  Easier  to  communicate  skills  to  employers  and  other  interested  par4es  

 

•  Metadata  makes  data  open,  providing  greater  insights  into  person’s  skills  (viewer  could  even  re-­‐grade  the  submiBed  project  if  they  wanted  to)  

•  Be  recognized  for  what  doesn’t  show  on  a  transcript  •  If  you  can  document  it,  you  can  badge  it!        

       

BYU Rick West and Dan Randall - BYU

Micro Badges for Teacher Education

Consisting of: •  Leading Educational Technology-related Professional Associations •  Leading Teacher Preparation Institutions, and •  Leading School Districts To: •  Develop the Teacher Educator Competencies into Micro-credentials •  For Teacher Educators AND K-12 Teachers •  Endorsed by professional organizations by •  Adding criteria and defining the evidence required •  Developing rubrics with which to assess the evidence •  Sharing the Micro-credentials across universities •  Encouraging Districts to get serious about technology-related preparation

Should we host a working group?

Efficacy of

Educational Technologies

Rapid Cycle Evaluations for Ed Tech tech.ed.gov/rcte

Districts Rely More on Peer Recommendations and Pilots than Rigorous Evidence

Take

Too Long

+

Too Expensive

Not Iterative

Serve Different Purposes

traditional research

= high confidence of certainty of

causal connections

Rapid Cycle Evaluations for Ed Tech

• Project will provide a platform and resources for districts to evaluate ed tech products

• Platform will be free, publicly available, and under an open license

• Designed for ed tech, but easily adapted to other research questions

RCE Workflow

01. Welcome to

RCE for Ed Tech

02. Understanding Your Problem

03. Planning Your

Research

04. Preparing Your

Data

05. Analyzing Your

Data

06. Summarizing Your Findings

tech.ed.gov@OfficeOfEdTech